>>>>> "Stuart" == Stuart Yeates <stuart.yeates@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Hello Stuart, I'm a Go player myself.

    Stuart> (*) I'd like to define calculate a value for $moves
    Stuart> (commented out) and use it if no value is passed in on the
    Stuart> command line/url, but I can't work out how. This doesn't
    Stuart> work:

You should code a top-level xsl:param - it's select attribute serves
as a default if no parameter value is actually passed to the program,
so:

<xsl:param name="moves" select="count(//moves) - 1"/> as a child
of the <xsl:stylesheet> element, will do the trick.
-- 
Colin Adams
Preston Lancashire